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June 06, 2009 07:21:08am |
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Re: What If I Only Listened To 1968? |
I've been wondering about this myself. I listened to early 1968 exclusively for several months because of the RTV2N2 release: that, DP22, DS6, the stuff on So Many Roads, as well as various Grateful Dead Hours and some Taper's Section (not to mention the bootlegs). It is so intense, wild and possessed. I had to stop because I was becoming obsessed with it all and am listening to March-May 1977 to prepare myself for the Hartford release (which I still haven't listened to).
I'm finding myself enjoying the 1977 stuff but it seams so tame...or mature...or just more staid than the 1968 stuff. It's a lot more refined and the band has so much more control over where it goes but the sense of adventure seems lacking in comparison with the 1968 stuff. Some of those jams in early 68 are not really from this planet - they're almost always on the brink of going cosmic and not coming back. Even DS6 from March is, in my opinion, more focussed and less extreme than the January and February stuff.
By August things are far more controlled, although they're much more sophisticated too. 12 October just sums it all up - that really is an absolutely stunning show. The Dark Star in it may be one of the best they ever played and the subtlety in it would have been unthinkable in the first third of the year.
Ahhh 1968. Yeah maybe I should just stick to it. It's amazing to think these guys could be this electric and still be playing decades later. I'm amazed that it didn't burn all of them out. I guess some would argue that it did burn them out and I'd agree that they probably never returned to that zone of energy but I think they needed to back off from the accelerator to learn to play with a gentler more thoughtful touch.
Good times.
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light into ashes |
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June 06, 2009 01:06:27pm |
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Re: What If I Only Listened To 1968? |
Good description of '68....anything after '68 is pretty tame!
But 1967 is, if anything, even more high-energy....shows like 5/5, 6/18, 8/4/67....totally off the charts! The missing gaps in 1968 recordings are heartbreaking enough, but the huge holes in 1967 are even worse - only about a dozen shows are available from that year. Just imagine, something like 9/3/67 might have been an *average* show for summer '67.... Sigh.
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Styrofoam Cueball |
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June 07, 2009 07:18:57pm |
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Re: What If I Only Listened To 1968? |
I was just listening to 3/18/67... it's everything spacedface says it is. The sound quality is all over the place, but that's 1967 for ya.
This post was modified by Styrofoam Cueball on 2009-06-08 02:18:57
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June 07, 2009 07:21:16am |
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Re: What If I Only Listened To 1968? |
yes, look at the high energy not only of the band at this free show for the Columbia Students on May 3, 1968:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_rrw6uYHTA but in the audience as well...
the jaw dropping at 1:03...
the young boy banging on Mickey Hart's high hat...
and btw, the mystery of what they were actually playing (in at least part of this footage) could be solved by a musician who takes a close look at the frames from about 0:38 through 0:42, where we get a clear if brief view of Weir, Lesh and Garcia fingering their fretboards.
Try to recreate what they're doing, and that should reveal the answer to the mystery!
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light into ashes |
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June 07, 2009 12:40:31pm |
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Re: What If I Only Listened To 1968? |
Professionally filmed, it's a shame there isn't more.... I don't think it's a clip of one song though, they probably took random shots from throughout the event.
But at 1:05, is that Lesh singing while Garcia plays chords?? Too blurry for me to tell for sure.
A good soundtrack would be the Alligator from 5/18/68!
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William Tell |
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June 06, 2009 07:43:41am |
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Re: What If I Only Listened To 1968? |
Where have I heard this before?
Well done.
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